(Or "calculator") /bit'ee boks/ A computer
sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a
hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing
software on or for it. The term is especially used of small,
obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal computers such
as the Atari 800,
Osborne,
Sinclair,
VIC-20,
TRS-80
or
IBM PC, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of
"real computer" (see
Get a real computer!).
See also
mess-dos,
toaster,
toy.